RW Framing: Emancipate Yourself From Mental Slavery

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Reality is the result of war between two rival groups of programmers,

so....Roar Louder!!!

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by: buhdydharma @ Mon Sep 21, 2009 at 13:06:38 PM CDT

The Big Lie (4.00 / 10)

Full immersion indoctrination.
Brainwashing.

The RW and all commercial media. Including the commercials.

Spend more time outside. Read good books. Find the truthful blogs. Educate yourself

We never graduate. They never stop lying and distorting. This is a life-long commitment if you're going to take it on.

My best hope - they fringe RW goes so far beyond the pale that the "mainstream" of the party begins to disavow them. So far, it's Rush's party - and Beck, Palin, Savage, Hannity, etc. Eventually they'll go the way of Tail-gunner Joe. They all fall on their face at some point.

Not that the Dems have much of a solution themselves.

"Three things cannot be long hidden: the Sun, the Moon and the Truth." Buddha

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by: RUKind @ Mon Sep 21, 2009 at 22:08:14 PM CDT

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Love it, Buhdy! (4.00 / 9)

Emancipate yourself from mental slavery,
none but ourselves can free our minds.
Have no fear for atomic energy,
none of them can stop the time.

How long shall they kill our prophets,
while we stand aside and look?
Some say it's just a part of it,
we've got to fulfill the book.

One of my all-time favorites!

Some are born to weirdness, some attain weirdness and others have weirdness thrust upon them...
- OPOL

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by: Joy B. @ Mon Sep 21, 2009 at 13:49:51 PM CDT

tired (4.00 / 10)

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.  ~Leo Tolstoy

Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings.  ~Victor Hugo

Faith makes things possible, not easy.  ~Author Unknown

Faith is raising the sail of our little boat until it is caught up in the soft winds above and picks up speed, not from anything within itself, but from the vast resources of the universe around us.  ~W. Ralph Ward

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.  ~Winston Churchill

No justice, no peace.

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by: Lady Libertine @ Mon Sep 21, 2009 at 14:23:05 PM CDT

Let the Republican "flat earthers" fall off the edge of real reality! (4.00 / 10)

YES - the Republicans are a fading, dying minority with three decades of abject FAILURE as their loony legacy & with a future ruled by TV & radio circus clowns, a hockey mom with lipstick, a former Vice-Presidential torture advocate, tea baggers, deathers, birthers & outright RACISTS!

And WE should be entertaining ANY Republican ideas or concerns??? Now THAT is more hilarious that the comic styling's of Limbaugh or Beck!!!!!!!!!

ENOUGH of the IDIOCY, this is a time that "demands" INTELLECT!!!!

   

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by: exoevolution @ Mon Sep 21, 2009 at 14:28:37 PM CDT

Our present reality (4.00 / 14)

knows no political ideology, dogma or reality with out the mythical filter of right and left, as expressed by our so called two party's. Our reality goes beyond the political and has been accepted as the way things are according to the pigs. Sorry I don't buy that this is a Republican reality, if it was it would not be so hard to change. It has been created and sold as inevitable, the American Dream, the best in the world, by all who rule of have a vested interest in the status quo and are hell bent on reaping seeds of nothing but misery and destruction of the very earth all for a twisted sick version of what started out a dream of equality for all.... even that vision is up for grabs by those that would twist it's intent.

Sure it was flawed but it recognized that checks and balances were needed on power and that without the common good we cannot progress. How has this morphed into us against them when they are the same. The differences are absurdly similar. Lately I think Jeeze maybe I'm a tea bagger. While I defend public options and hate the 'drown the government' there is no line between government and the corporate entities that know no ideology other then profit and destruction.  

Like the sports teams that no longer have names that are regional or cultural were all just ruled by the corporations who use our political arena to own and extract the maximum profit that can be made. Sorry to be so cynical but the Democrats have offered us nothing but a more polite version of hell.

Neither party is capable of offering anything that is not the same deal repackaged and called change or reform or reality. What color is reality blue, purple, red? It is not going to be found in political hues but in the reality that that we end up living in .        

 

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by: Shaharazade @ Mon Sep 21, 2009 at 14:30:09 PM CDT

The color of reality... (4.00 / 5)

What color is reality blue, purple, red?

is green.

All that campaign cash buys a lot of stupid.

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by: Night Owl @ Mon Sep 21, 2009 at 23:09:27 PM CDT

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You should ask! (4.00 / 2)

Reality is BLACK AND BLUE!!!!!

Say "YES" to Generation We  Go there, read the Petition and sign, if you agree!   Say "YES" to GENERAL STRIKE

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by: tahoebasha3 @ Tue Sep 22, 2009 at 14:32:16 PM CDT

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"The republican" (4.00 / 10)

Hey you, out there in the cold
Getting lonely, getting old
Can you feel me?
Hey you, standing in the aisles
With itchy feet and fading smiles
Can you feel me?
Hey you, don't help them to bury the light
Don't give in without a fight.

Hey you, out there on your own
Sitting naked by the phone
Would you touch me?
Hey you, with you ear against the wall
Waiting for someone to call out
Would you touch me?
Hey you, would you help me to carry the stone?
Open your heart, I'm coming home.

But it was only fantasy.
The wall was too high,
As you can see.
No matter how he tried,
He could not break free.
And the worms ate into his brain.

Hey you, standing in the road
Always doing what you're told,
Can you help me?
Hey you, out there beyond the wall,
Breaking bottles in the hall,
Can you help me?
Hey you, don't tell me there's no hope at all
Together we stand, divided we fall.

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by: Edger @ Mon Sep 21, 2009 at 14:39:25 PM CDT

Hi Edger! (4.00 / 7)

Great choice...

Rock is dead. Long live paper and scissors.

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by: rb137 @ Mon Sep 21, 2009 at 14:55:01 PM CDT

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Hey R! (4.00 / 6)

Nice to see you back here ;-)

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by: Edger @ Mon Sep 21, 2009 at 14:57:46 PM CDT

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It's time for us to start writing our own story-lines ... (4.00 / 7)

Frames are the word-pictures, that make an Idea "stick".

Framing is related to "story telling" but in a much more subtle and direct way. A Frame is more like "the moral" of the Story -- a Frame is the take-away point, the Lesson to be Learned.  

A good Frame, like a good joke, provides a memorable context, so that the "punch line" almost rolls off the page, off the stage, off the couch.

A good Frame, is a metaphor, for a larger more complex topic.

Framing -- the Final Frontier

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by: jamess @ Mon Sep 21, 2009 at 20:49:02 PM CDT

Fortunately, I never accepted right-wing framing. (4.00 / 3)

Unfortunately, most of the politicians I know, and most of the bloggers I've encountered on the 'net, have.  They refuse to recognize that we are locked in an ideological war, that we are losing, and as a result refuse to even consider doing the things we must in order to win.  They refuse because, when all the bullshit excuses are stripped away, what it all boils down to is that they simply haven't the stomachs for war.

This is because the things we must do to win this ideological war are not pleasant.  It means we have to accept, first of all, that we are engaged in such a conflict to begin with.  It means we have to recognize who our friends and allies really are, and most especially, recognize who our enemies are - and that latter recognition means accepting that Obama and the other right-wing Democrats are part of the problem, never the solution, that they will always operate against us.  It means we have to adopt similar in-your-face methods for countering right-wing lies with the truth, so we may properly argue and defend our positions on vital issues.  And it means recognizing that our enemies are not even remotely human, that they are subhuman savages with a depraved, fundamentally evil ideology that think absolutely nothing of resorting to everything - including and especially violence on a scale we don't like to imagine - to get what they want.

These truths are difficult for many left-wingers to accept because we like to believe in the inherent goodness of all human beings, and because we prefer to take what we think is the high road, to be better than our enemies.  Sadly, this unwillingness to accept the truth of things is what is killing us.  We cannot afford to be this weak against savages whose only goal is power and whose only restraint is the recognition that even they can only go so far in pressing their evil agenda.  But they've been steadily removing even the mild restrictions decorum currently requires of them, and we have to wake up to that before we find ourselves once again having our asses handed to us.

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by: Archangel M @ Tue Sep 22, 2009 at 07:34:57 AM CDT

One more thing... (4.00 / 4)

This surrender to right-wing brainwashing also extends to efforts to break the left away from the very organization that is working with Republicans to neutralize us as an organized and effective movement.  By that I mean the constant discouragement from trying to use third parties to help drive Democrats leftward.  Dare suggest supporting third party candidates and we're threatened with Republican victories, as though the Democrats haven't spent the last thirty or so years - and especially the last three (give or take a few months) - proving that things are no better under their rule.  This, too, is an example of how brainwashed we on the left have become; we sabotage even our own efforts to reshape the Democratic Party by helping to crush any attempts to reform it from without as well as from within.

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by: Archangel M @ Tue Sep 22, 2009 at 07:43:16 AM CDT

Don't stop at rejecting right wing crap (4.00 / 1)

go all the way and see how globo-corp buys both of them.
http://proliberty.com/observer...

Knight of the Fifth Veil

Whatever you do to others you also do to yourself!

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by: Lasthorseman @ Tue Sep 22, 2009 at 08:37:02 AM CDT

why didnt he reject the framing? (4.00 / 2)

Recently, Rick Sanchez-CNN spent time responding to a full-page Fox news ad that claimed CNN did not cover the 9/12 protest. Mr Sanches got upset and ranted that in fact they did. How bizare, i thought. Why did he get so mad at that?
It was like he just met them.

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by: hoipoi @ Tue Sep 22, 2009 at 16:47:27 PM CDT